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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Italiano
Description
Samuele is twelve years old and lives on an island in the middle of the sea. He goes to school, and loves shooting his slingshot and going hunting. He likes land games, even though everything around him speaks of the sea and the men, women, and children who try to cross it to get to his island. But his is not an island like the others, its name is Lampedusa and it is the most symbolic border of Europe, crossed by thousands of migrants in the last...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How did NASA engineers build and launch the most ambitious telescope of all time? Follow the dramatic story of the James Webb Space Telescope -- the most complex machine ever launched into space. If it works, scientists believe that this new eye on the universe will peer deeper back in time and space than ever before to the birth of galaxies, and may even be able to "sniff" the atmospheres of exoplanets as we search for signs of life beyond Earth....
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Scientists are coming to understand fat as a fascinating and dynamic organ - one whose size has more to do with biological processes than personal choices. Through real life stories of hunter-gatherers, sumo wrestlers, and supermodels, Nova explores the complex functions of fat and role it plays in controlling hunger, hormones, and even reproduction.
Series
Criterion collection volume 899
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This evocative character study tells the story of a young American fashion assistant and spiritual medium who is living in Paris and searching for signs of an afterlife following the sudden death of her twin brother. A stirring depiction of grief in the form of a psychological thriller, and a chilling meditation on modern modes of communication and the way we mourn those we love.
Publisher
Kino on Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Français
Description
The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments.
Series
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Chasing the moon reimagines the race to the moon for a new generation, upending much of the mythology surrounding the effort. The series recasts the Space Age as scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama. Utilizing overlooked and lost archival material, the film features a cast of characters who played key roles in these historic events.
10) Big Pacific
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
The Pacific Ocean covers one third of the Earth's surface, holds half of the world's water, and hides the deepest place on the planet. It is a place where huge and iconic, rare and dazzling creatures live, and where creatures yet to be discovered lurk. Filmed in cinematic 4K, the program breaks the boundaries between land and sea to present the Pacific Ocean in a way never seen before.
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses wood figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate his firsthand experiences and those of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.
12) After Stonehenge
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A new discovery of a 3000-year-old settlement in England changes archaeologists' view of Europe during the Bronze Age.
13) Bergman island
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In search of inspiration for their current filmmaking projects, Chris and her partner travel to the remote island of Fårö, Sweden, where Bergman lived and worked for decades. There, the spirit of the cinema master looms as Chris confronts her complicated relationships with work, men, motherhood, and her artistic influences.
14) Things to come
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Description
Nathalie is a philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But beginning with the bombshell revelation that her husband of twenty-five years is leaving her, one by one the pillars of Nathalie's life start to crumble. For the first time in ages, she finds herself adrift, but also with a newfound sense of liberation. With nothing to hold her back, Nathalie sets...
15) Spies of Warsaw
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the French embassy in Warsaw, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, he is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage. Risking his life, Mercier works in the shadows amid a remarkable cast of characters, some known...
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Discover the ingenious engineering of Beijing's Forbidden City, the power center of imperial China for nearly 500 years. Discover how the design of this vast complex of palaces and temples enabled it to survive centuries of earthquake shocks.
18) The treasure
Publisher
Sundance Selects
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Romanian
Description
A man who is strapped for cash asks his neighbor to help him find the fortune that is supposedly buried somewhere on his family's property in Romania.
19) Faces places
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
Filmmaker Agnès Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.
20) Bannon's war
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
President Trump's advisor Stephen Bannon's war, with radical Islam, Washington, and White House rivals. The story of Bannon's fight to deliver on Trump's promises, with a confrontational style based on his personal crusade to dramatically transform America.
